Subscribe to RSS FeedTechTips: Optimizing EndNote to Access Full Text
Many researchers take advantage of bibliographic management soft to search online bibliographic databases, organize their references, images and PDFs, and to create bibliographies and figure lists. Although the a central site license provides campus access to RefWorks, many researchers instead use EndNote. Bibliograhic management tools like EndNote can not only help researchers to manage references, [...]
TechTips: The “Quora” Question and Answer Service
One of the hot emerging social media sites is a service called Quora. Started by former Facebook employees, Quora is a “continually improving collection” of questions and answers that are user created, edited, and organized. Quora aggregates all the questions and associated answers while allowing users to collaborate on any of them. Yes, question and answer [...]
TechTips: RockMelt: The Social Web Browser
If you are a heavy Facebook and Twitter user, you might want to hunt for an invite and try the RockMelt web browser. RockMelt works like any other browser with one big difference: it integrates Facebook and Twitter. In short, one can use the browser to browse web sites AND keep up-to-date with your friends without opening Facebook or Twitter. [...]
TechTips: Read It Later With Instapaper
How many times a day do you come across articles or interesting items online that you don’t have time to read at that moment? The most common method of saving such content is to create browser bookmarks. However, over time browser bookmark lists can become very long and unorganized. Another common approach to saving content [...]
TechTips: URL Shortening
URL shortening is the process of taking a long URL and turning it into, well, a shorter one. For example, instead of using the 168 character URL http://library.ohio-state.edu/search~S7/?searchtype=a&searcharg=+gee+e+gordon&searchscope=7&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=ae+gordon+gee, one could use the 27 character shortened URL of http://tinyurl.com/geebooks. The mechanism for resolving a shortened URL is relatively simple. The long URL must first be registered [...]
TechTips: Sharing Content Using Shareaholic
Shareaholic is a Web browser plug-in which makes it easier to share, e-mail, tweet, and bookmark news, videos and blog postings on any of your social network sites. Share links, videos, news articles, images without cutting and pasting Toolbars, buttons and bookmarklets are no longer needed for every social media site you use Works with [...]
TechTips: Does Spokeo.com Violate My Privacy?
There has been a lot of discussion over the the past few weeks about a personal data aggregation service named Spokeo. Just yesterday, I received an email about the site with a subject line containing the word “scary.” The bottom line with Spokeo is that all the information pulled together with this service is already [...]
TechTips: OSU Branded Doodle
Anyone that has had to schedule a meeting with participants across campus departments, or at other institutions, knows how challenging it can be. One emails out a list of possible times and sorts the replies looking for a common time. The process is repeated if no time can be agreed upon. Well, this has been [...]
TechTips: foursquare
Foursquare is an location-based social networking service (some call it a game) that is a combination a Facebook status, a Twitter update, and a Yelp restaurant review. Users “checkin” at different locations, unlock badges, post “to-dos” and “tips” for different locations. The goal of the service is to help users find new ways to explore a city [...]
TechTip: Renting Scholarly Articles Through DeepDyve
I received an email from a colleague about a month or so ago about a search engine they uncovered, called DeepDyve. DeepDyve was started in 2005 by two scientists who had previously worked on the Human Genome Project. It makes sense that the search engine searches for information spanning the life sciences, medicine, and patents. [...]
